On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:16 PM Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > So surely there is an > > "approved" tool for doing that. Hopefully OTHER THAN > > apt, aptitude, synaptic or apt-get; ideally simpler and easier to > > script than that. > > So what is that tool? > > #!/bin/bash > if [[ ! -r /etc/debian_version ]]; then ..... > esac
Which illustrates the exact problem in this situation: There is no such tool. See what you did? (1) You foolishly relied on the value in /etc/debian_version when you already know that it isn't the right, canonical value. Because it won't work on certain debian releases. (2) I didn't ask for a script, I asked for a pre-existing tool. You demonstrated that there is no such tool other than /etc/debian_version. So.... ;-) Once again, what is the one single, concise tool that tells me which debian version I'm running...... :-)
